By global standards, the #waterfalls near #Pontneddfechan are not huge but I still think they're impressive. Here is the largest one which is perhaps 15 m high. The recent rains meant that there was a good volume of flow on that day. This one is called #SgwdGwladus. I like the #mist rising from the #spray in this scene.
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We recently visited the #NationalPark in #Wales which used to be called the #BreconBeacons but is now known as #BannauBrycheiniog. I practised pronouncing it a few times and it's actually quite easy and roles off the back of the throat without a problem for someone who speaks Urdu. There was lots of walking to be done and on the morning of the first day, we went to the #waterfalls at #Pontneddfechan. The return trip was about 10.5 km long. It was a nice way to whet the appetite for hiking in this picturesque part of the country.
The river is called #NeddFechan and over that stretch falls about 200 m in total. This #photograph gives you a good flavour of the scenery.
Today's model is a #Bumblebee on #Allium #Flowers. The flowers are attracting a steady stream of #Pollinators
This cropped image is not at full resolution as that would be bigger than my screen but it's nice to get a sharp image of the subject.
Moments later it flew onto another plant and I got this nice shot of it. Once again, the image is cropped.
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#Bumblebees are visiting the #allium #flowers quite frequently today as it's dry again. It's still quite #breezy and the stalks are swaying quite a bit in the #wind.
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A #hoverfly on the #flower of an #allium plant.
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A #bee visits a #flower of a #blackberry bush.
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It's a hot late #spring day and I was sitting the conservatory as #birds were flitting around the back #garden. Here's a verdant scene of the #flowering #potato #plants I took while waiting with a #telephoto lens for any #sparrows to show up.
One #HouseSparrow did visit the #birdfeeder and I got this nice profile. It almost looks like it's holding a pose for me.
Seconds later, it flew right up to within 3-4 m under the shade of a #rose #bush no doubt looking for aphids and I caught this rather contrasting, scary image of the same #bird as it might look to one of its tiny victims.
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The #pollinators have done their job with the #apple #tree. There are now many nascent #fruit on it clumped in groups of about four to five. Here's a close up of one.
Elsewhere, the #potato #plants are flowering. Maybe you don't associate nice #flowers with a food plant but I think these look rather pretty.
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Just randomly shooting with a #PolarizingFilter. A bit of #LensFlare and a #Gull near the #Sun but I think the #Clouds steal the scene. They have a characteristic flattened bottom side indicating a uniform temperature gradient in the atmosphere up to the #DewPoint and know that gives you a sense of depth perception.
The same #AppleTree as before but a different #pollinator. This #insect is a #bumblebee which was visiting the #blossoms. They sometimes spend quite a while on each #flower but this one was flitting from one to another spending barely a second on each. Thus, this #photograph was one of several I took. The image is #cropped.
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The #AppleTree is in bloom and there are various #arthropods are frequenting it. This #wasp was wandering over the #AppleBlossom. You can see the #Pollen collected on its back #legs.
Meanwhile, this little #spider was on a nearby #leaf. You can see that it is quite well #camouflaged.
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Earlier today, I used a #MacroLens to #photograph a subject close up. Now I switched to a #telephoto lens with a #FocalLength of 400 mm to capture objects effectively at #infinity.
You may have seen some of my #sunset #photographs before and, yes, it's the same #horizon and the same old #Sun but this one caught my eye because of its sharpness. There wasn't a cloud in the vicinity of the Sun when it was setting. You can see the bright, smoothly varying #yellow, #gold and #orange of the #sky contrasting the dark, sharp #silhouettes of the #trees in the #foreground. Also there's that mobile phone mast too.
#Cropping the image around our local #star, you see the #trees in what I'm calling #ExtremeSilhouette as the blinding light of the Sun seem to flow around solid wood and renders it invisible with only the ends of branches seemingly suspended in mid air disconnected to the trunk and giving the Sun the appearance of having spiky hair.
I was looking for a subject to #photograph at lunchtime. I couldn't find ay bees but I did get this shot of a blue #fly which briefly landed on the top off a wheelie bin. Not the most beautiful of animals but I suppose it's a matter of judgement. The iridescence of its wings is nice.
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The #Apple #Tree is producing many #blossoms this year and so, with luck we'll have plenty of #fruit come the end of #summer and #autumn. I hope the local #pollinators will get their just desserts for their efforts.
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To use the #MacroLens requires a different technique to a zoom #lens but I'm slowly getting used to it. There are a few #tulip #flowers blooming at present in the #garden and so here are some #photographs of them in close up.
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The #spider I photographed a few days ago in the conservatory is still around but today is resting on the other side of its #web so I've got a good view of its underside. Just be aware that it is tiny, it's body is about 3 to 4 mm in length but the #Macrolens does its job in making it look huge! I've imported and then exported it through #Gimp which enhances the colours somewhat but there's no other image manipulation.
Marking it as #NSFW in case you are a bit arachnophobic, like me.
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Today's #flower in the #garden is a star of Behtlehem. At least it looks like one of the many #species of #plants that go by that common name and I'm not a botanist and won't try to be more specific. It has six #petals which struck me as odd (no, not odd, you know what I mean). The number of petals is often a number from the #FibonacciSequence and so what might happen here during development is that each of the three petals split into two. I'm just speculating and I'm sure there are many more knowledgeable people who could give the right answer.
This second image is a cropped version of the one above. You can see the #stamens covered in yellow #pollen well. Instead of putting the centre of the flower in the centre of the image, I've used the #RuleOfThirds to try to make it a bit more interesting, which has the added benefit of being able to fit an entire petal into the frame.
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Today's #cycle trip was to #Exmouth which is about 18 km away by #bike and either on #cyclepaths or very low density residential #MotorTraffic. It has been a bright sunny day but still a bit cool. This is a #photograph of the #ExeEstuary which opens out into the #EnglishChannel or #LaManche. It was #LowTide and so you can clearly see #SandBanks in the middle of the #estuary which form a #habitat for #birds but also a #NavigationalHazard for boats. You can see the opposite #bank too which is in #Starcross.
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